Bottle-opener.



unrrn srnrns rnrn-jrrc FRANK C. EMRICK AND JACQUES K. BAER, OF ST. LOUIS7 MISSOURI, ASSIGNORS TO/V RUSCH- FREUND BREWERS SUPPLY COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION OF MISSOURI.

BOTTLE-OPENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 21, 1908.

Application led September 10, 1907. Serial No. 392,152.

To all whom it may concern: l

Be it knownthat we, FRANK C. EMRICK and JACQUES K. BAER, both citizens of the United States, .residing at St. Louis, Missouri,

have invented a certain new and useful Im-A rovement in'Bottle-Openers, of which the f ollowing is a full, clear, and eXact descri tion, such as will enable others skilled in t e' our improved bottle opener showing the bottle in position therein; Fig. 2 is a front elevational view; and Fig. 8 is a sectional view on the line 3-3`of Fig. 1'.

This invention relates to a new and useful y to that class of openers which are designed to open bottles 'closed by the well-A known ty e of Crown-seal. The Crown lseal is'a disk aving a marginal flange crimped under a bead at the mouth of the bottle. A disk of cork is held against the mouth of the bottle by a sheet metal seal. In opening a bottle having a seal of this character the proj ection isplaced under the crimped edge, and by a suitable leverage on top of the metal seal the seal is tilted or canted off of the mouth of the bottle. Openers for bottles of this kind may either be hand openers or openers designed Jfor attachment to a wall. Oury improvement relates to the latter class of openers. We are aware that wall openers' are in use, but those we have seen are provided with lateral lugs against which the seal is fulcrumed in opening the bottle. If the bottle is inserted with force -against these lugs the mouth is chipped or broken and so becomes unit for further use in' connection with the character of the stopper described.

In the drawings, l indicates the bottle and 2 is the Crown seal constituting a closure therefor. i'

3 indicates the side walls of our improved opener, which side walls are segmental and are formed slightly tapering, the base 4 being on a slight incbhne and provided with a screw hole for the passage of a securing screw 5.

The mouth of the opener, which is larger than its inner end, is provided with aA marginal flange having a lug through which a securing screw 6 may be passed. The rim forming the mouth is provided with two seg* mental lips 7 arranged op osite each other between the se mental s1 e walls, said li s extending slight y inwardly so that one or t e other engage under the crimped flange of the bottle closure depending on whether the bottle is raised or lowered 1n the opening operation.

8 indicates a post extending from the base of the opener, which post is centrally located between the two lips 7. Post 8 is designed to engage with the outer wall of the metal disk at some point within the lines of the mouth of the bottle, not in line with the glass wall constituting said mouth. In this manner when the bottle is inserted into the opener the ost arrests the inward movement oi the bott e by contacting with the metal disk at some point where there is no danger of the glass constituting the mouth of the bottle being chi ped or cracked, and then by a slight vertica' movement so as to bring the crimped edge of the crown behind one of the lips 7, the bottle may be raised or lowered as the case may be, to pry the closure from its mouth. In this prying operation the post 8 constitutes a fulcrum or the o ening leverage. In order to center and guide the bottle into the opener, the segmental side walls at their edges are provided with ribs 9;

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new and desired to be secured by Letters Patent is:

l. In a bottle opener, the combination with segmental side walls, inwardly extend ing lips arranged between said side walls, and a post centrally located between said lips; substantially as described.

2. In a bottle o ener, tapering segmental side walls, inwar ly extending concentric lips arranged between said side walls and detween said sidewalls, and a )ost arranged between said lips; substantial y as described.

In testimony whereof we hereunto aliix our signatures in the presence of two witnesses, this iifth day of September 1907.

FRANK C. EMRICK. JACQUES K. BAER. Witnesses:

WELLS L. CHURCH, GEORGE BAKEWELL. 

